A Rotary Motor for Bacterial Gliding

While probing the mystery of how some bacteria move across surfaces, Prof. Howard Berg and researchers in his group, Abhishek Shrivastava and Pushkar Lele, have discovered a kind of rotary motor in the bacterium Flavobacterium johnsoniae.

Read the Gazettearticle and the original press release. See also the paper in Current Biology (referenced above).